Christmas Frenzy!

[rflong]

Just back from the penultimate mad dash around the shops for food in the event that Christmas never ends and the shops never reopen!  When I was a kid, it used to feel like Christmas lasted for weeks and all the shops closed completely for ages, but since the advent of 24 hour supermarkets and corner shops where you buy things at three time their market value, it kind of cracks me up that the mentality is still to buy as if stocking an air raid shelter for the coming war. 

In an effort to avoid this I left everything I could until 6.30 this morning and did my shopping then. Yes, the entire night staff of the supermarket and myself had a wonderful time. Well I did. They stacked shelves and joked. The guards came in and bought DVDs. I used to enjoy late night shopping. It had a surreal quality, as if all participants were secretly a bit drunk. But early morning shopping is bizare, like everyone is slightly stoned instead.

So, we just have to pick up the turkey and ham from the family butcher, a bottle of cheap white wine for gravy (isn't it nice to think we don't have a bottle of cheap wine in the house this year?!) We have to clean the house and pin my sister down to a visiting time (this could be the impossible part!) My husband DOES have to buy a Christmas present because of one fairly unfortunate oversight!!!

And I joined Facebook. Because... you know... em....

C'mon! Everyone else was doing it!

Happy Christmas all.

Comments

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

It is fun, going out shopping just before Christmas. Like being stoned or drunk, exactly! And there are a lot of others who are doing the same thing, so you all have fun and joke about it.

I'm glad you had a nice time, Christmas will be great :D

[sacredmime.livejournal.com]

Did most of my shopping yesterday, but I'm still not finished :/

Anyway, Merry Christmas! :)